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Today, the vendors working
stalls at the Salvatori
Building site are likely to
have an excellent day of sales
as they deliver for crowds
gathered to view Carnival
downtown. That bounty will
continue tomorrow as the
streets look set to be filled
with both masqueraders and
spectators, but according to
Port-of-Spain Mayor Raymond
Tim Kee, that s all going to
end by the middle of February.
No specific date has been
set, but Mayor Tim Kee is keen
to move the vendors who have
already survived one effort to
move them by Udecott, but
that extension is about to run
out, and the state construction
agency expects the City Corpo-
ration to remove the long
standing stalls. An alternative
site has been identified at the
Central Market, but apart from
the distance from the city cen-
tre, the vendors argue that the
site is in need of serious refur-
bishment and renovation if it s
to stand any chance of being a
viable commercial space.
The story of the vendors
selling at the razed site that
was once the location of the
landmark Salvatori Building has
been a long and troubled one.
It all began on a sensible foot-
ing with Project Salvatori
2011/2012, launched at the end
of November, 2011. This was an
official and temporary use of
the empty site that sits at the
nexus of the vast majority of
the major traffic that flows
into and out of Port-of-Spain.
It s also close to most routes
into and out of City Gate, the
other travel cluster point for
the travelling public that has
supported temporary and per-
manent businesses on the ruins
of buildings at South Quay
destroyed during the 1990
coup attempt. It was all hand-
shakes and smiles in 2011. Even
as former city Mayor Louis Lee
Sing determinedly warned
"There will be no extensions,
vendors," former Housing Min-
ister Dr Roodal Moonilal was
promising to visit the site with
his straw basket to shop.
The mixed signals would
continue for the next four
years. In December 2012, Dr
Moonilal set a deadline of Ash
Wednesday 2013 for the ven-
dor s continued use of the site.
Mayor Tim Kee announced
discussions with the Local
Government Ministry about a
new space for vendors in
August 2014, noting that the
property belonged to Udecott
and "they want it back."
Four days later, on September
03, another three-month
extension was granted to the
vendors, despite Udecott s need
to do "significant infrastructure
development works" which
called for the site to be
cleared.
While the city, and by exten-
sion the State, is under no
obligation to provide vending
space to these small scale
entrepreneurs, there are larger
concerns in play here. If the
vendors served no purpose,
they would have left on their
own long ago, starved of cus-
tomers. Port-of-Spain itself is
in need of some de-compacting
and strategic reorganisation,
and efforts to expand and revi-
talise torpid sections of the
city should, indeed, be on the
agenda of city planners.
Yes, the Central Market is
some distance from the Salva-
tori Building, which is prime
real estate in the heart of the
city that any business would
crave. Given the lure and value
established by the vendors over
the last five years, this move
begins to look more like an
opportunity than a problem, a
chance to return the Central
Market to its once and possibly
future role as a place for shop-
ping and more.
Vendor's plight calls for intervention
Given the lure and value established by the vendors over the last five years, this
move begins to look more like an opportunity than a problem, a chance to return the
Central Market to its once and possibly future role as a place for shopping and more.
The West Indies youth team is
currently in the quarter-finals of the ICC
Under-19 competition.
Their victory against Zimbabwe to
push them into the top eight has been
overshadowed by that controversial
last wicket when pacer Keemo Paul ran
out the non-striker, who was backing
up too far. The cricket world is divided
on this issue. People like Australian
coach Daren Lehman and former New
Zealand captain Stephen Fleming have
both come out swinging against the
West Indies.
The runout was labelled "disgraceful,"
and it has been suggested that the
West Indies ought to be embarrassed
at the way victory was achieved.
There are those, on the other hand,
who saw absolutely nothing wrong
with what the youngster did. I go
further. He ought to be commended for
having the presence of mind to do what
he did. Those of us who insist that
there was some breach of the spirit of
the game need to get with the times.
That was a long time ago. Cricket is
now a billion-dollar industry. The
competition for places at the top is
fierce because the really good ones,
especially since the advent of 20/20,
are really well paid. Keemo Paul simply
saw an opportunity to run somebody
out in a high-profile match with a lot at
stake and went for it.
Those who feel the West Indies did
wrong should direct their anger at the
ICC. Get them to change the rules. But
as long as the rules allow you to
Mankad a batsman, we shouldn't frown
when it happens.
I can't be accused of cheating if what
I do is well within the rules.---Orville
Higgins, Jamaica Gleaner
Sound Off: Stumped by cricket hypocrisy
A20
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FEBRUARY 8,
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